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How to grow your brand using Social Media {Podcast}

Greg Savage

We know that one of the key assets of a modern recruiter is a magnetic personal brand. But how? Building a brand via social media is hard work. It requires a defined strategy, and it hinges on discipline and smart execution over the long term. But it can and must be done. And it will […].

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Candidate Power Returns With A Bang

The Whiteboard

Some real life examples of poor manners and behaviour from candidates of ours in recent days: Cancelling interviews one hour prior, via email, because they feel they have “enough options to consider already” Postponing interview via text, never to be heard from again. Promising to attend interviews with clients even though offer pending from elsewhere, and then cancelling 30 minutes before interview when expected offer did come in.

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My Work Team Rocks – And Why It Matters To You

ExactHire Recruiting

Recently I took a week’s worth of holiday time. It was used to recharge my mental health and reestablish bonds with my loved ones, as most holidays are. Our plans called for a canoe camping trip in the Ozarks. No internet. No phones. No radio. No electricity. Just us and the outdoors and any other people (or animals) we might happen to encounter along the way.

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The Art of LinkedIn “Endorsement Bombing”

Social Talent

“ Congratulations! Your connection has endorsed you for the following new skills & expertise: Marketing, Copywriting,…Paranormal Romance?! ” Brace yourselves recruiters, “ endorsement bombing ” (or the process of “ endorsing people for nonsensical skills “) is now a thing! Yes, believe it or not, the art of hitting your friends and family with a truck load of totally irrelevant LinkedIn endorsements is now quite a popular online prank – and the

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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Stop Wasting Time in Bad Meetings

Glassdoor for Employers

At Glassdoor, we recently unveiled new meeting rules, aka “Meetiquette,” to maintain Glassdoor’s scrappy start-up feel as we grow at a rapid pace. Our leadership implemented this policy to help us stay on the same page, be more effective and waste less time in unnecessary meetings. What is “Meetiquette,” you ask? Basically, it’s etiquette guidelines for meetings.

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Common Problems With The Pre-Employment Screening Process

ExactHire Recruiting

You’re in the homestretch of filling a vacant position within your organization. You have at least one candidate you are confident will help meet, or possibly exceed, your organization’s goals and objectives in this vacant role. The last item before crossing the finish line: pre-employment screening. Sometimes, pre-employment screening can feel like you have hit “the wall” over the course of a marathon instead of feeling the elation of crossing the finish line.

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EXCITING NEW PRODUCTS ALERT! 6 Must-See Recruiting News Stories – 2nd June 2015

Social Talent

In the news this week: NEW Indeed Tools and Tweaks Coming your Way! As announced at their Indeed Interactive event in Austin Texas last week, Indeed, the world’s most popular job board, are working on a variety of tools and tweaks to improve its product – and we’re highly impressed by all of them! One of the new offerings will match employers with “ actively seeking, motivated ” candidates who have richer profiles and have passed through a screening process.

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3 Steps to Planning a Kick-Ass Recruiting Event

Glassdoor for Employers

Have you ever fought hard to get budget for a recruiting event only to see the whole thing flop in your face? Maybe you planned everything last minute and didn’t promote it right. Maybe your venue didn’t work or you didn’t have the right attendees there. Well, that’s all about to change. I’m going to fill you in on the tools you need to plan and execute the best recruiting event you’ve ever had.

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Why You Need a Social Media Policy

NPA Worldwide

Mel Kettle is a communications and social media consultant, speaker, blogger, educator, coach, bookworm, obsessive foodie and eatie, and a budding photographer. She blogs on marketing and social media at www.melkettle.com.au. Mel is passionate about working with organisations to show them how to communicate effectively so they can develop communities, share their stories and raise awareness.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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3 Reasons a Recruiter Won’t Partner With Your Company

Spark Hire

Working with a recruiter is a great way for a company to fast track the hiring process as well as identify the best talent for the job. However, some companies may find it hard to believe that a recruiter may not always be so eager to recruit for their company. Based on my previous recruiting experience, there are many reasons why this could happen. 1.

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7 Questions on Recruitment Marketing We’ll Answer at OHUG 2015

Symphony Talent

A few of us on the SmashFly team are kicking off June with a trip to Las Vegas―for the OHUG 2015 Conference of course. Our Chief Product Officer Mary Grace Hennessy will be leading a panel on Wednesday, June 10 from 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. at the conference with a few of SmashFly’s expert customers, Continue Reading → The post 7 Questions on Recruitment Marketing We’ll Answer at OHUG 2015 appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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3 Keys to Making Your Hiring Manager Your Ally

Glassdoor for Employers

Being a successful recruiter is like being on “Survivor”, the popular reality TV show where castaways vote each other off each week for the chance of winning a million dollars. Granted, in recruiting you’re not eating bugs and (hopefully) not walking around in a banana hammock, but you’re still part of a team. And, just like on Survivor, being a success in the recruiting landscape means your team sees as you a valuable contributor worth keeping around.

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3 Highlights From the May 2015 Jobs Report

CareerBuilder

It’s as if the economy knew it was National Donut Day and wanted to join the celebrations by delivering a strong May jobs report this morning. Jobs and wages up again in May. Happy Friday. — Eric Gilpin (@REricGilpin) June 5, 2015. As you may know, following each month’s BLS jobs report, we read dozens of news reports, scour the Web, and break what we find down to three key talking points you can use.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Spark Hire and AcquireTM Partner to Launch Video Interviewing Integration

Spark Hire

Spark Hire is proud to announce its partnership with AcquireTM , an easy-to-use applicant tracking software and hiring management solution. The integration allows AcquireTM customers to utilize Spark Hire’s video interviewing functionality directly on the AcquireTM platform. By taking advantage of the video interviewing integration, customers will have the tools necessary for streamlining the interview process and improving candidate screening.

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Moving from Contingent to Retained Recruitment

NPA Worldwide

For many recruitment firms, the shift from one style of recruiting to another is a difficult transition. It is not unusual for those starting in the business to begin as contingent recruiters. And some firms find this model suits them well and continue as contingent recruitment firms with no need or desire to change. If it works and you are happy, your clients are good with your method, then keep a good thing going.

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How Recruiting Is Being Disrupted, And Why You Should Care

SmartRecruiters

Leading companies’ methods for finding talent follow a typical routine: invest in several college and university programs, sponsor various events and conferences, and expect applicants to come running to your door. This may have worked in the past, but now that Millennials are a large percentage of job seekers, this model needs to change, and in certain industries, it already has.

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7 Do’s and Don’ts of Networking at SHRM

CareerBuilder

It can be awkward and intimidating to be a guest at a party … especially if it’s a party of 15,000-plus in Vegas. Oh, and did we mention these are some of the smartest people in the entire world? Lucky for you, we put together a handy list of do’s and don’ts to up your networking game — while avoiding awkwardness — at SHRM. So read up before you pack your bags. 1.

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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There Wasn’t A Recruitment Marketing Entry in Wikipedia

Symphony Talent

I remember when I wasn’t allowed to use Wikipedia as a source for papers or research in school. Whether that was because teachers thought it wasn’t accurate or they wanted us to walk to the library to get a real book, it was extremely annoying. Well teachers, the times have changed―Wikipedia is nearly always the. Continue Reading → The post There Wasn’t A Recruitment Marketing Entry in Wikipedia appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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How to use Social Media to attract talent

Allegis Global Solutions

Here are some tips for making the most out of social media to attract new talent.

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How to boost your employer brand: make sure all your employees are on LinkedIn

Beamery

Employer branding is a forming a central part of talent attraction in today’s brave new world. Attracting the very best candidates is only getting harder, so standing out from the crowd with a great employer brand is a great way to overtake competitors. The problem? Employer branding can be a little amorphous – it’s hard to know exactly where to begin.

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What Does Effective Talent Management Really Look Like?

CareerBuilder

Most business leaders would agree that effective talent management plays a critical role in the achievement of a company’s overall business strategy and objectives. What does “effective talent management” look like? And does the size of a company or budget matter when it comes to the ability to execute upon it and create competitive advantage?

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Case Study: C2HM Attracts Best Talent on Planet Using Modern Recruitment Marketing

Symphony Talent

We’re excited to share a case study featuring our customer CH2M, an industry-leading program management, construction management and design firm with US$6.1 billion in revenue and 25,000 employees globally. SmashFly’s Total Recruitment Marketing Platform helped this powerhouse attract the top talent on the planet (literally) using modern recruitment marketing.

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How To Find Resumes on Google and Bing

FeeTrader

By Travis Scott. A few years ago I wrote a blog post about this topic and decided to do some research and find out if things have changed since then. Although things have mostly remained the same, there are a few new concepts that can improve your results. (Plus, since I’m in digital advertising now, I did some keyword research and found that at least 20 people per month or about 250 people per year search for this on Google, so people remain interested in learning how to do this).

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Reinventing strategic talent acquisition for business alignment

Allegis Global Solutions

There are three key questions that need to be answered to reinvent your talent acquisition.

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Searching for Truth in Talent Management

CareerBuilder

Talent management is a buzzword that should mean something. In fairness, far too many organizations use the term as an umbrella to describe everything that happens after you recruit someone and before you fire them. Onboarding? Performance management? Goal setting? Succession planning? Sure, yeah, okay, stick it in the bucket of talent management and call it a day.” There is an art to talent management, which includes the alignment of your workforce to an organization’s goals and obj

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Best Recruitment Marketing Articles 6.1 to 6.5

Symphony Talent

Sit down (or stand up, it’s good for you!), take 15 and read through the best articles of the week in recruitment marketing. But first, our top content and tweet of the week. Content of the Week There is now an official entry for Recruiting Marketing in Wikipedia—and we were behind it. We’re constantly. Continue Reading → The post Best Recruitment Marketing Articles 6.1 to 6.5 appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Predictive Analytics: Optimize Your Candidate Experience

iCIMS

By implementing predictive analytics into your candidate experience, you can create a tailored and strategic approach to attracting and retaining talent that will positively impact your bottom line.

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Apply Now! The Excellence in Technology Awards Are Open

Brandon Hall

It’s that time of year again when our team at Brandon Hall Group gets ramped up and excited to open our Excellence in Technology Awards Program. We are proud to be running our industry-leading awards program for 21 years. Our program seeks out organizations that are at the forefront of technology innovation and performance. We appreciate all the effort that goes into showcasing your solutions and the significant amount of work and perseverance that it takes to create an entry.